US Patent Issued to AMATEQ HOLDING on March 11 for "Treatment of mill scale containing hydrocarbons" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,246,364, issued on March 11, was assigned to AMATEQ HOLDING GMBH (Munster, Germany).

"Treatment of mill scale containing hydrocarbons" was invented by Alexander Kehrmann (Munster, Germany) and Nico W. Scheeres (Boca Raton, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention is directed to a unit and/or process for treating mill scale containing hydrocarbons, which improves emission levels and allows better control of the temperature during the heating stage. The unit and/or process comprises an indirect-fired rotary thermal reactor (2), a pre-treatment duct (18), a two-stage recovery unit wherein the first stage comprises an oil r...